January 15, 2025

New year, new outlook: important facts about the stock market

Were you surprised by the gap up on the major stock market indexes on January 15th? TechniTrader students were NOT. Martha explains some of the details about the stock market that can make a big difference.

  • How a positive attitude can help with trading or investing.
  • Why the stock market is not a zero-sum game.
  • Dark Pool venues vs. trading activity on the public stock exchanges.


January 30, 2025

The Hazards of Using News Strategies for Trading Stocks

By the time the news comes out, it's way too late to buy or sell. The retail news is mostly used to manipulate the largest and most uninformed market participant groups.

  • Consider the source.
  • Ask yourself: Who benefits from this news?
  • There are better, leading strategies to use for trading, to buy and sell before the speculation sets in. TechniTrader can teach you how.


TechniTrader Radio Podcast

with Martha Stokes, CMT

Tune in to hear Martha explain various topics across the stock market and other financial markets. 

Aimed at technical traders and self-directed investors, Martha provides valuable insights, tips, and strategies for trading stocks, options, ETFs, and more. 

With her extensive experience as a Chartered Market Technician and her unique perspective from the professional side of the market, Martha helps demystify the stock market and equips listeners with the knowledge they need to succeed.

Contact us to request that she cover a particular topic. 

Chartered Market Technician | CEO | Head Instructor Martha Stokes CMT

Martha's life's work in her retirement years is to pass her decades of knowledge and experience in the markets onto her dedicated TechniTrader students. Martha Stokes CMT is a retired professional Buy-Side Analyst. She is a member of the CMT Association and earned the Chartered Market Technician designation with her thesis, “Cycle Evolution Theory.” She is a prolific author, having created over 40 stock market courses that include new, unique analyses: Relational Technical Analysis, Market Condition Analysis, and Spatial Pattern Recognition. Her focus for long-term investments is emerging displacement technologies that will have a significant impact on society, the economy, and the stock market. Martha ran a successful fund, has sat on both sides of the Venture Capital table, worked on an IPO, and has taught at several community colleges. Martha's articles can be found all around the web, i.e., Proactive Advisor Magazine, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, the CMT Association, Stockcharts.com, eZine and more.